Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Monday, June 15, 2015
Chalet Motels
Postcard US-3429629 to Michigan was a vintage card that advertised Chalet Motels for being "Luxury and Economy Across the Nation." It boasted amenities such as air refrigeration, television, kitchens available, heated pool, and room phones
Recommended by AAA, it offered free reservation service to all other Charlet Motels. Major credit cards accepted.
The credit line stated "Litho by bob Plunkett, R. S. Los Angeles 6."
Labels:
AAA,
advertising card,
Chalet Motels,
lithograph,
lodge,
PostCrossing,
sent,
travel,
US-3429629,
vintage
Location:
Detroit, MI, USA
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Volkswagen Samba Bus
Postcard US-3202842 from Los Angeles was a vintage travel postcard by Lantern Press showing a Volkswagen Samba Bus cruising along the Los Angeles coast. First produced in 1951, Samba-Bus, also known as Deluxe Microbus, was the most luxurious version of the Volkswagen Transporter T1 with panoramic windows and a fabric roof. It became popular as a hippie bus in the 1960s.
Labels:
1951,
1960s,
automobile,
bus,
California,
car,
coast,
Los Angeles,
postcard,
PostCrossing,
received,
Samba Bus,
travel,
US-3202842,
vintage,
Volkswagen
Location:
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Exactitude
Postcard US-2713420 from Illinois shows a 1932 Art Deco travel poster of train "Exactitude" by French artist Pierre Fix-Masseau (1905-1994). The original poster was a 39.25 inch x 24.25 inch color lithograph, part of the Modernism Collection in Minneapolis Institute of Arts. It was a gift from Norwest Bank Minnesota.
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